Stopper with pad for medicine-bottles



(ModeL) 'W.N. WELLS. Stop-per with Pad for Medicine Bottles.

, Patented March 29, 1881 INVENTOR MM f'w I mm! 7 N. PETERS. PHOYO LTHOGRAFHE UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM N. WELLS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

STOPPER W-ITH PAD FOR MEDICINE-BOTTLES.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 239,581, dated March29', 1881:

Application filed October 28, 1880. (Model) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM N. WELLS, of Boston, in the county ofSuffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Stoppers with Pads for Medicine-Bottles; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, whichform a part of this specification.

My invention has for its object to provide an improved cork or stopperwith pad for dispensing medicine by drops, or for local application; andit consists of a stopper having a pad of piano-felt or other absorbentmaterial of a predetermined absorbing and delivering capacity attachedto the bottom thereof, as will be hereinafter fully described, andpointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l represents a side elevation ofm yinvention, and Fig. 2. vertical longitudinal section thereof.

Similar letters of referenceindicatelike parts in both figures.

In the drawings, A represents the stopper,

. which is composed of cork, glass, or other suitable material, providedat the lower or smaller end with a pad, a, of piano-felt or othersuitable absorbent substance, as hereinafter designated, said pad beingconnected to the stopper by means of a non corrosive metallic pin orwire, I), passing up through the body of the coras shown in Fig. 2. Thepad a may,howevt r be cemented or otherwise suitably seeu. to the bottomof the cork without departing from the spirit of my invention. To thetop of the stopper is connected a shield, 13, of glass, rubber, or othersuitable material, said shield being cemented or otherwise secured tothe op of the cork or stopper, and is adapted to allow of the stopperbeing readily handled or withdrawn from the bottle without soiling thefin 'ers.

The construction of my invention being as described, it will be observedthat a pad of seven-sixteenths of an inch in diameter for a prescription-vial having a seven --sixteenths orifice will absorb five drops fromthe contents ofsaid vial and will impart the same upon pressure, while alarger or smaller pad will absorb and impart any given number of drops,according to the diameter of the pad; of seven-sixteenths of an inchdiameter will absorb and dispense ten drops; of eight-sixteenths of aninch diameter will absorb and dispense thirteen drops; ofnine-sixteenths of an inch diameter will absorb and dispense sixteendrops; of tensixteenths of an inch diameter will absorb and dispensetwenty one drops; of eleven sixteenths of an inch diameter will absorband dispense twenty-five drops; of twelve-sixteenths of an inch diameterwill absorb and dispense thirty drops.

The stopper may also be used for local ap plications for relieving painby pressing the pad, saturated with the required remedy, upon the partaffected, which operation may be repeated as often as may be deemedadvisable, or until the pain is relieved.

I am aware that corks have heretofore been provided with a sponge orswab at 'theirlower ends for the purpose of acting as .a brush to spreadthe contents of the bottle, and I do not therefore desire to claim sucha construction, broadly; but,

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and usefulis- 1. As an improved article of manufacture, the hereindescribedstopper, consisting of the body A, provided with the shield B andabsorbing-pad a, which has a predetermined absorbing and deliveringcapacity, said pad bestantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination, with the cork or stopper A, of the absorbing-pad at,having a predetermined absorbing and delivering capacity, substantiallyas and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signaturein presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM NELSON WELLS.

Witnesses:

ELISHA BASSETT, M. A. DANA.

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